Right now, in the present. I have a short memory.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Either pottering around on my own or performing, so I don’t know what kind of person that makes me.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 December 2015 source ↗
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It would be a bad sign if I had a definite answer to that, wouldn't it?
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